Edward anderson



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E. ANDERSON.. DEVICE FUR SUSPENDING STOVE LID LlFTEBS.

(Application med Nov, 2, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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TO J. F. O. ROBINSON, OF SAME PLACE.

DEVICE FOR SUSPENDING STOVE-LID LIFTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 612,451, dated October18, 18981. Application filed November 2, 1897. Serial No. 657,176.l (Nomodel.)

T0 all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, EDWARD ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Sundance, in the county of Crook and State of Wyoming, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Suspend? ingStove-Lid Lifters; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact def scription of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has relation to a device for suspending stove-lid lifters.

Theobject of the invention is to provide a device of this charactercapable of being supported above the stove either connected to the pipe,wall, or ceiling and adapted to suspend therefrom within convenientreach at all times the stove-lid lifter, whereby after the lifter hasbeen used in removing a lid from the stove it will be automaticallyraised from the stove-lid and be within convenient reach of the personwhen it is again needed and will not be heated to such a degree as toburn the hands, as is the case with stove-lid lifters left engaged withthe lid.

A further object of the invention is to provide means whereby thetension of the spring may be regulated so as to compensate for the losttension due to the frequent use of the lifter, and, finally, to providea device of this character'which shall be simple of construction,durable in use, and comparatively inexpensive of production.

NVith these objects in View the invention consists of certain featuresof construction and combination of parts, which will be hereinafterfully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation illustratingthe application of my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional viewthrough the winding-drum and spring-barrel, and Fig. 3 is an enlargedvsectional view taken at right angles to Fig. 2.

In said drawings, 1 denotes a bracket to the forked ends of which isrigidly secured a shaft 2, having iixed thereon acircular rack pipe orany other suitable support; but, as shown in the accompanying drawings,it is illustrated as connected to the stovepipe.

a. This bracket may be secured to the stove-- 4 denotes a winding-drumhavin ga grooved periphery 5. This winding-drum is mounted upon theshaft 2 to rotate relatively thereto and carries within it aspring-barrel 6. This barrel is mounted upon a rotary shaft 7, journaledin the sides of the drum, and a coiled spring 8 has one end fixed tosaid shaft 7 and the other end to a stud 9, secured to the barrel. Thebarrel has upon its periphery a circular rack 10, adapted to engage thecircular rack 8, hereinbefore mentioned, thus forming what is known inthe art as a sun-and planet connection.

11 denotes a cord or rope which is wound around the drum and has one endconnected thereto and the other end of which passes through an eye 15,formed in a wire bail 16, fixed to the shaft 2, and is adapted to beconnected to the stove-lid lifter or other tool or device adapted to beraised. v

In operation it is evident thatwhen the cord is pulled downward the drumwill be rotated in the direction of the arrow 22 and the spring-drum 6will be rotated bodily about the circular rack 3 and axially about theshaft 7, thus winding up the spring in the direction of the dotted arrow25. (Shown in Fig. 3.) When the cord is released, the spring, havingbeen wound,will exert its energy and will move the barrel in directionsthe reverse to those just described, thus rotating the drum and Windingup the cord.

The constant use or employment of the stove-lid lifter would soon tendto weaken the spring and render the device worthless, and in order toovercome this objection Iprovide a crank 12, which is connected to theends of the shaft '7, by means of which the shaft may be rotated` forthe purpose of setting the spring-that is, for increasing its tension.The side of the drum may be provided with several ndentations 13,adapted to Vreceive a stud 111, carried by the crank, which seats in theindentations according to the adjustment of the spring, and thus holdsthe spring under the adjusted tension.

While I prefer to, use the bracket shown, inasmuch as it is lighter inweight and less expensive to manufacture than the ordinary bracketsheretofore used and may also be attached to the stovepipe, wall, orother de- IOO The combination with a fixed shaft provided With a' xedcircular rack, of a drum rotatably mounted upon said shaft and providedwith a suspending-cord, a rotary shaft journaled in the sides of thedrum, a barrel journaled upon said rotary shaft and free to turnindependently thereof, said barrel pro- I 5 vided with a circular rackto engage the rack on the fixed shaft, a spring, having one endconnected to the rotary shaft and the other end to the barrel and acrank for adjusting the tension of the spring, substantially as set 2oforth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of twoWitnesses.

EDWARD ANDERSON.

Vitnesses:

BENJ. E. COWL, SYLvEsTER CAssELL.

